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2000 Annual Report
- page 12 of 70
Tour de France
A tour de force
Speed. Focus. Reliability. And, of course, teamwork.
That was the winning formula for Lance Armstrong and the entire
USPS Pro Cycling Team as they rode to their second consecutive victory
in the world’s most challenging cycling event, the legendary Tour
de France.
That formula is the same one that drives performance for the Postal
Service, one of the nation’s most respected brands.
When they made their victory lap, amid the cheers of thousands along
Paris’ Champs Elysées, Lance and his eight teammates—members of
the only American-sponsored team—were all still rolling. They were
the only one of 20 teams, totaling 180 riders, that started the
race and finished intact.
Armstrong took the yellow jersey—the “maillot jaune,” signifying
the race leader—less than halfway through the race after a magnificent
ride in the Pyrenees mountains that left his closest competitors
trailing far behind. It never left his shoulders again. The team
was flawless in its protection of Armstrong for the rest of the
grueling, 2,276-mile, three-week race.
With the team’s victory clinched, the Postal Service brought the
excitement to the streets, post offices and mailboxes of America,
with millions of specially designed Priority Mail envelopes. They
featured a photo of a beaming Armstrong, his arms raised in triumph,
sporting the winner’s yellow jersey and, of course, the proud eagle
logo of the Postal Service. The same image—larger than life—rolled
through major American cities on the sides of 10,000 Postal Service
delivery vehicles.
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